Rack for umbrellas or canes



UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

a ALBERT J. GRIMES AND HARRY S. GRIMES, OF PORTSMOUTH, OHIO.

RACK FOR UMBREL LAS OR CANES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,953, dated January22,18 95.

' Application time, 3,1294. Serial No. 516,452. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that We, ALBERT J. GRIMES and HARRY, S. GRIMES, ofPortsmouth, in the county of Scioto and State of Ohio, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Racks for Umbrellas or Canes, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description. a

Our invention relates to improvements in racks for umbrellas and canes,and has for its object to provide a rack for conveniently and securelyholding a great number of umbrellas and canes; and a further object ofthe invention is to provide the rack with means whereby the umbrellasand canes held thereby can be readily and accurately identified.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures and letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rack to which the system is applied,the rack being especially adapted for holding such articles as umbrellasand canes. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the said rack. Fig. 3 is a sectiontaken vertically through the upper portion of the rack, substantially onthe line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a detail view, illustrating themanner in which the spring clamps are held in the arms of the rack.

With reference to the rack it consists of a base 10, which is in theform of a basin and is usually mounted upon suitable supports 11. Fromthe center of this basin a standard 12 is upwardly projected, and thecarrying section of the rack is pivoted upon the said standard. Thecarrying section preferably comprises a hub 13 and arms 14 radiatingfrom the hub, the hub being pivoted upon the standard bypassing a pin 15through asuit-able aperture in the hub into the bore in the standard, asshown in Fig. 3. The arms are secured in the hub in any suitable orapproved manner, being preferably fixedly attached thereto, and anornamental cap 16, is ordinarily secured to the pin 15 over the top ofthe hub. When the carrying or revolving section of the rack is to beused for holdingumbrellas, canes and the like, each arm thereof is madein two sections, a lower section a and an upper section at, one sectionresting upon the other, and the clips 17 extend beyond both sides of thearm, being located in the lower section a. These clips are of peculiarformation, as shown in Fig. l, and are made double and in two sections,each section comprising an intermediate straight member b locatedbetween two curved members I), the curved members of the two sectionsbeing bent in opposite directions, and upon the lines of a compoundcurve. A slot is made in the upper edge of the lower section of the arm,and the straight members of two sections are placed in contact andintroduced into the said slot,whereupon a spring clip 17 will beformedat each side of the arm. Any'number of these clips may beemployed, andtwhen they are in position the top sections of the arms aresecured in place. Each arm is preferably made to terminate at its outerextremity in a button 18, and each button bears a distingushing mark,character or symbol; as, for example, when six arms are employed thevarious buttons may be designated as A, B, O, D, E and F; Over eachindividual clip on each arm a hook or pin 19 is secured, said hooks orpins on each arm being prefemably consecutively numbered or other wisedesignated; as, for example, on the arm ,A, if five hooks are upon eachside, five clips will be located upon each side, and the hooks will benumbered from 1 to 5 upon one side and from 6 to 10 upon the other side.Each hook is adapted to carry a check 20, the check bearing the letteror character designating the arm upon which it is located, and likewisethe number or designating mark of the clip over which it is suspended,which will likewise be the number of the hook adapted to support thatparticular check.

Thus when an umbrella, for example, is handed in to be checked and it isplaced in the second clip on one side of the arm A, the clip havingabove it a check 2 A,. and the said check is given to the person owningthe umbrella, after said article has been placed in the correspondingclip, when the person desires the return of the umbrella, by handing inthe check the person checking the articles can at once go to the arm A,find clip 2 upon said arm, and be sure that the proper umbrella isreturned. The check is then returned to its hook.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. An umbrella or cane rack, comprising a base,a standard projecting from the base, a hub mounted to revolve on theupper end of the standard and provided With radial arms, double springclips secured to the arms and projecting from opposite sides thereof,and hooks on the arms, one above each clip substantially as described.

2. An umbrella or cane rack, comprising a base, a standard projectingfrom the base, a revoluble hub on the standard and provided with radialarms, each having a designating character, spring clips on each side ofeach arm, the said clips being numbered, hooks on the arms above theclips and numbered to correspond with the clips, and checks on the hooksand having a character designating the arms and the clip over which itis suspended, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination with a bracket arm constructed in two sections, of adouble clip located between the two sections, the said double clipconsisting of two sections, each section comprising a central straightmember adapted to be received in the bracket arm, and curved endmembers, the end members of the two sections being curved in oppositedirections, as and for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT J. GRIMES. HARRY S. GRIMES.

\Vitnesses:

J. D. BRIDGES, I. B. GRIMES.

